A sport played between two teams of eighteen players on the field of either an Australian football ground, a modified cricket field, or a similarly sized sports venue, also called football, footy, Aussie rules, or AFL.

Contents

Summary

A team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a ball on large oval shaped grass fields (often also used as a cricket ground), with four goal posts at each end.

Description

Australian rules football, is a sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval field with 4 vertical goal posts (no cross bars) at both ends.

Officially known as Australian football,[1]also calledfootball, footy, or Aussie rules[2] (and in some regions marketed as AFL after the Australian Football League, the pre-eminent and fully professional Australian football league in the country),[3]

The main way to score points is by kicking the ball between the two tall goal posts. The team with the higher total score at the end of the match wins[4] unless either a draw is declared or a tie-break is used.[5]